Converting to Array

PowerShell Team February 27, 2009 Feb 27, 2009 02/27/09

When you run a PowerShell pipeline, that pipeline might return 0, 1 or many items.  If you are assigning the results of that pipeline to a variable, you will get $null, 1 item or an array of items respectively.  Sometimes, you won't care about the different types returned, but at other times, you'll actually prefer to force the ...

Stopping Every Instance of PowerShell.exe (except the one I'm in)

PowerShell Team February 11, 2009 Feb 11, 2009 02/11/09

Our Test Architect just dropped by my office and pitched me a PowerShell question with a nice, quick answer. He wanted to stop every process of a particular name, except for the instance that was running the script. You can do this in one nice pipeline: Get-Process Powershell  | Where-Object { $_.ID -ne $pid } | Stop-Process Get-...

#requires your scripts

PowerShell Team February 6, 2009 Feb 6, 2009 02/6/09

Recently, I saw someone that had developed a script on the CTP3 drop and was then having trouble running it on v1 of PowerShell.  Eventually it turned out that he was using v2 features in his script.  Most of you know that we are trying to keep the next version of PowerShell compatible with v1 and I encourage you to report ...